Book contents
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Chapter 5 Blaisdell
- Chapter 6 Nebbia
- Chapter 7 The Gold Clause Cases
- Section C: Crisis
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Chapter 5 - Blaisdell
from Section B: The False Dawn
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
Book contents
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Chapter 5 Blaisdell
- Chapter 6 Nebbia
- Chapter 7 The Gold Clause Cases
- Section C: Crisis
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Summary
The chapter is an extended case study of the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium case, examining its political and doctrinal background, and describing the Court’s internal deliberations. It argues that Hughes’s opinion for the Court was not as dramatic a break with precedent as it was characterized, and examines the way in which observers believed that the decision foreshadowed what the Court would do with New Deal legislation.
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- The Hughes CourtFrom Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941, pp. 119 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022